ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (Sept. 20, 2001) -- Unbeaten Miss Indiana, who
races in the colors of Keith Asmussen and Ocean Front Property, the
nom-de-plume for country music star George Strait, seeks to keep her perfect
record intact as possible favorite in a field of nine juvenile fillies
slated to contest the 67th running of Grade III $100,000
Arlington-Washington Lassie Saturday at Arlington Park. The one-mile race
will be the eighth of nine races on the Saturday card that starts at 1 p.m.
Central Time.

The Lassie has long been a showcase for champion 2-year-old fillies
and last year was no exception. Carl F. Pollard's Caressing, who finished
second to Richard, Bertram & Elaine Klein's Thunder Bertie, went on to
capture the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs en
route to being named Eclipse Award champion 2-year-old filly.

A daughter of Clever Trick, Miss Indiana has made two starts in her
brief career. The Steve Asmussen-trained filly broke her maiden by a nose
at first asking at Keeneland April 11 and returned 4½ months later to post
a 3¼-length score in a first-level allowance race at Saratoga August 29.
Shane Laviolette is named to ride Miss Indiana for the first time in the
Lassie.

Of these, the last named also brings a clean slate to the Lassie.
The daughter of Regal Classic was an easy 11¾-length victress when racing
for a $50,000 claiming price in her debut here August 22. The Hugh
Robertson trainee followed with a game head win in the $75,000 Top Flight
Stakes, the final local prep race for the Lassie September 1.

Joanies Bella, an Ohio-bred daughter of Mercer Mill, is a two-time
stakes winner. The Timothy Hamm pupil captured the restricted Tah Duh
Stakes at River Downs by 12¼ lengths July 21 and later took the Cincinnati
oval's top event for juvenile fillies, the $100,000 Pepsi Bassinet Stakes,
by 2¼ lengths September 1.